Carnosine and Reduced Fasting Blood Glucose Levels

• Effect of carnosine or beta-alanine supplementation therapy for prediabetes or type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-09-25
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 377
  • BMC endocrine disorders 25(1)
  • • Na Li
    • Xueqin Yan
    • Jiayi Lin
    • Meng Wu
    • Xingyu He
    • Jingxian Yang
    • Hongling Li
    • Wenjun Wei
    • Yinlei Zhang
    • Yuting Zhong
    • Guangya Xu
    • Zhonglin Fan
    • Xingrong Hu
    • Yao Wang
    • Zheng Shi

  • PubMed: 40999397
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12902-025-02016-w

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Fasting Blood Glucose Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  supplementation significantly reduced fasting blood glucose (FBG) (SMD: -0.53; 95% CI: -0.75 to -0.31; p < 0.00001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes